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Day, Barry" It Depends On How You Look At It ... "[London] McCann 1978 No edition noted Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket Follow-on work to authors prior work on communications titled What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate. Perfect bound wraps with cover illustrations in b&w, well-illustrated with many b&w examples of "communications". Introduction dated 1977 at London, year and publisher from rear cover. This copy bears an inscription penned inside the front cover and signed by the author: For _____, With every good wish. Barry. ; 8" x 11-1/2"; 210 pp; Wrappers lightly worn along edges including a 1/4" closed tear along top edge, pages lightly bumped at upper right. Aside from authors inscription, pages are clean and free of tears or writing.
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75.00 USD

Kellogg, Paul (Editor); Raymond Gram Swing (Special Editor)"CALLING AMERICA" A Special Number of Survey Graphic on The Challenge to DemocracyNew York and London Harper & Brothers (1939) Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket Focus of this book was to alert Americans to the dangers brewing in Germany and Japan, presumably to seek sympathy for a war effort. Rear cover lists more than 25 contributors. Blue, white and red design on paper over boards, black cloth spine, illustrated in b&w. Heavy, extra for international postage. ; 8-1/2" x 12"; 122 pp; Light rubbing, lightly edgeworn, mostly at corners, solid and square binding, paper lightly toned along edges. Rippling and faint dampstaining along the bottom margin of the pages, no inscriptions, pages and clean and unmarked.
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32.00 USD

Owen, J. J."OUR LITTLE DOCTOR" Helen Craib-Beighle and the Magic Power of Her Electric HandSan Francisco The Hicks-Judd Co. 1911 Stated Second Edition Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket The subject was endowed with "an electric right arm and hand with which she peforms all of her arudous and magic work. The arm, from an inch above the elbow to the tips pf her fingers, is charged with electricity. The touch or her hand conveys to some sensitive natures a powerful shock." Publishers blue cloth, gilt lettering front, frontispiec e portraits of Dr. Nellie Beighle and Mrs. Jean Craib (Mother of the Author), additional plates offer portraits of Sir Astley Paston Cooper and Charley Farnham. ; 5" x 7"; 62 pp; A very nicely preserved copy with only very minor wear. Prior owner name stamped inside rear, with no other writing.
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50.00 USD

Smith, Robert Paul; James J. Spanfeller (Drawings)"Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing."New York W.W. Norton & Company (1957) Eleventh Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket How it was when you were a kid -- and how things have deteriorated since. Yellow coated paper over boards, front cover with illustration and spine lettering. White dust jacket reproduces cover image in red and with black and red lettering.; 5-3/4" x 8-1/2"; 124 pp; Covers lightly toned along top edge, solid hinges, front free endpaper with inked inscription: I think you'll get a kick out of this set, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket with very light light soiling, a single short closed tear at fold along top edge and wrinkling along bottom edge, not price clipped ($2.95), protected by mylar cover.
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25.00 USD

de Fernig, Baron Moens (Introduction)1958 Brussels Universal and International FairBelgium 1958 Fair Information Service 1957? Softcover Very Good- with no dust jacket Issued to promote the features of the coming fair, to invite the participation of exhibitors and to identify sources for additional information. Stapled wraps, covers and contents printed using several spot colors. This copy in American [English]. Title from cover. Scarce, one copy located through Worldcat (at Northwestern, in French). ; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; [12] pp; Front cover with closed tear at top and creasing at corners, otherwise little wear, clean and unmarked.
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50.00 USD

Rose, Alan20th Century LimitedGarden City, New York Doubleday & Company 1984 0-385-27767-9 / 9780385277679 Stated First Edition Softcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket Cut and assemble a replica of the 20th Century Limited, the New York Central Lines train that ran between Grand Central Station in New York and Chicago. Stiff stapled wraps, pages on card stock and marked to be cut out to create color model. A Dolphin Book.; 11 x 14"; [56] pp; Slight cover wear and toning.
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40.00 USD